Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Biscuit \Bis"cuit\, n. [F. biscuit (cf. It. biscotto, Sp.
bizcocho, Pg. biscouto), fr. L. bis twice + coctus, p. p. of
coquere to cook, bake. See {Cook}, and cf. {Bisque} a kind of
porcelain.]
1. A kind of unraised bread, of many varieties, plain, sweet,
or fancy, formed into flat cakes, and bakes hard; as, ship
biscuit.
According to military practice, the bread or biscuit
of the Romans was twice prepared in the oven.
--Gibbon.
2. A small loaf or cake of bread, raised and shortened, or
made light with soda or baking powder. Usually a number
are baked in the same pan, forming a sheet or card.
3. Earthen ware or porcelain which has undergone the first
baking, before it is subjected to the glazing.
4. (Sculp.) A species of white, unglazed porcelain, in which
vases, figures, and groups are formed in miniature.
{Meat biscuit}, an alimentary preparation consisting of
matters extracted from meat by boiling, or of meat ground
fine and combined with flour, so as to form biscuits.
Meat \Meat\, n. [OE. mete, AS. mete; akin to OS. mat, meti, D.
met hashed meat, G. mettwurst sausage, OHG. maz food, Icel.
matr, Sw. mat, Dan. mad, Goth. mats. Cf. {Mast} fruit,
{Mush}.]
1. Food, in general; anything eaten for nourishment, either
by man or beast. Hence, the edible part of anything; as,
the meat of a lobster, a nut, or an egg. --Chaucer.
And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb
bearing seed, . . . to you it shall be for meat.
--Gen. i. 29.
Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for
you. --Gen. ix. 3.
2. The flesh of animals used as food; esp., animal muscle;
as, a breakfast of bread and fruit without meat.
3. Specifically, dinner; the chief meal. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
{Meat biscuit}. See under {Biscuit}.
{Meat earth} (Mining), vegetable mold. --Raymond.
{Meat fly}. (Zo["o]l.) See {Flesh fly}, under {Flesh}.
{Meat offering} (Script.), an offering of food, esp. of a
cake made of flour with salt and oil.
{To go to meat}, to go to a meal. [Obs.]
{To sit at meat}, to sit at the table in taking food.